''Poems, Chiefly Lyrical'' is a poetry collection by
Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his ...
, published in June 1830.
Contents
The poems are fifty-six in number:
Of these the poems in ''
italics
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'' appeared in the
edition of 1842, and were not much altered. Those with an
asterisk
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were, in addition to the italicised poems, afterwards included among the ''Juvenilia'' in the collected works (1871–1872), though excluded from all preceding editions of the poems. Those with both a
dagger
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and an asterisk were restored in editions previous to the first collected editions of the works.
History
''Poems, Chiefly Lyrical'', was published in 1830 by
Effingham Wilson
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Early life
Wilson was born at Ravens ...
, also the publisher of
Robert Browning
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's ''
Paracelsus
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He w ...
''.
The volume had the following title-page: ''Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, by Alfred Tennyson''. London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1830.
[Collins 1900, p. vii.] Favourable reviews appeared by
Sir John Bowring
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in the ''
Westminster
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'', by
Leigh Hunt
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Hunt co-founded '' The Examiner'', a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles. He was the centr ...
in the ''
Tatler
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'', and by
Arthur Hallam
Arthur Henry Hallam (1 February 1811 – 15 September 1833) was an English poet, best known as the subject of a major work, '' In Memoriam'', by his close friend and fellow poet Alfred Tennyson. Hallam has been described as the ''jeune homme fat ...
in the ''
Englishman's Magazine''.
[H. Tennyson 1897, p. 49.]
References
Sources
* Collins, John Churton, ed. (1900). ''
The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson''. London: Methuen & Co. pp. vii–viii.
*
Tennyson, Hallam (1897). ''Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by his Son''.
Vol. 1. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. pp. 49–55.
"Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809–1892" ''
Poetry Foundation
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''. 19 July 2017. Accessed 9 June 2022.
"Poems, Chiefly Lyrical" ''
Encyclopaedia Britannica
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